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phantomfive writes “In a study of Connecticut pediatricians published last year, some 30% of 133 doctors said they had asked a family to leave their practice for vaccine refusal. Pediatricians are getting tired of families avoiding vaccines, which puts their children at higher risk of disease. From the article: ‘Pediatricians fed up with parents who refuse to vaccinate their children out of concern it can cause autism or other problems (more…)

Firefighters today extinguished a fire that raged for more than 15 hours after two oil pipeline exploded at a Chinese port.An explosion at a pipe transporting crude oil from a ship to a storage tank blew up yesterday evening, causing a blast at a second, nearby duct.

It’s all to do with the growth of metal fibers in the batteries. These fibers are known as dendrites and when lithium batteries are charged up quickly or repeatedly, tiny lithium dendrites form on the carbon anodes, causing short circuits — which in turn cause the device to rapidly overheat and catch fire.

What will it take to secure a future free of fossil fuels and transition to efficient and renewable energy that is not just economically viable, but profitable? “Put simply, we intend to reverse the past quarter-millennium’s dominant global way in which people get and use energy,”…